WASHINGTON (Jan 01, 2015)The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is being awarded a $27,497,699 modification to a firm-fixed-price delivery order 0140 previously issued against Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-11-G-0001) for an F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G automated maintenance environment (AME). AME is a suite of integrated software application designed to support the "O" Level maintenance activity by providing enhanced procedural and technical support and data collection for performance analysis and trending. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed in December 2015. Fiscal 2014 and 2015 aircraft procurement (Navy) and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $27,497,699 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $21,326,083 for cost-plus- fixed-fee order 0090 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-12-G-0006) in support of the V-22. This order provides for fleet software sustainment that includes engineering and technical support for the V-22 flight control system and on-aircraft avionics software; flight test planning and coordination of changed avionics and flight control configuration; upgrade planning of avionics and flight controls, including performance of qualification testing and integration testing on software products. Work will be performed at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (90 percent), and Fort Worth, Texas (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2015. Fiscal 2014 and 2015 aircraft procurement (Navy and Air Force) and fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy and Air Force) funds in the amount of $21,326,083 will be obligated at time of award, $5,260,383 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $19,710,309 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to design, develop, demonstrate, document, and deliver a P-8A application based architecture system. Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia (45 percent); San Diego, California (16 percent); Hollywood, Maryland (15 percent); Beavercreek, Ohio (10 percent); Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (8 percent); and Austin, Texas (6 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2017. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,411,982 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals and five offers were received. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-15-C-0021).

Raytheon Co., Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a $15,494,873 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to design, develop, demonstrate, document, and deliver a P-8A application based architecture system. Work will be performed in Dallas, Texas (40.8 percent); Garland, Texas (24.5 percent); Middletown, Rhode Island (7.8 percent); Rockwall, Texas (7.8 percent); Aurora, Colorado (5.8 percent); Bloomington, Minnesota (4.3 percent); El Segundo, California (3 percent); Fort Wayne, Indiana (2 percent); Herndon, Virginia (2 percent); and San Diego, California (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2017. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,411,982 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals and five offers were received. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland is the contracting activity (N00019-15-C-0020).